Chapter 311: Close at hand
Demon King calendar year 648.
Mid-November, 8pm.
Inside the army camp of the Demon Kingdom of Avarus——
"The vanguard has successfully crossed the river. The Subia Demon Kingdom army must be dumbfounded now."
Wendy looked at the sand table and leaned back on the chair covered with fur to keep warm:
"As written in the military book given by the king, soldiers have no constant momentum, and water has no constant shape. Attack them unprepared and take them by surprise."
Although in "Great Principles" books such as the Tao Te Ching, Li Chengqi directly gave the original text without explaining it at all. Let Viola and the others figure it out on their own, and Li Chengqi won't care as long as they don't bring out the teachings of a cult.
But reference books like Sun Tzu's Art of War cannot be ignored. If they misunderstand the meaning and are regarded as truth by them, the consequences will be very serious.
Therefore, Li Chengqi not only provided the original text and translation, but also provided battle examples as a reference.
Wendy was not interested in other books such as Tiangong Kaiwu, Guiguzi, and Jiuzhang Arithmetic, but she was particularly fond of books on the art of war. When she saw Sun Tzu's Art of War, she felt like she had found a treasure.
Aldai was drinking black tea and said dissatisfiedly: "Wake up, stop reading. You said it as if it was your credit, and it was obviously all thanks to me..."
It was Aldai who used prophecy to predict when it would snow, and the technology for building the pontoon was also the idea provided by Aldai.
The technology to build a floating bridge in minutes is simple and nothing more than modular.
Build the prefabricated parts of the pontoon in advance, and then when the heavy snow comes and obscures the view, throw it into the water and hammer in the last few nails.
Although it is not very strong, it is enough for the vanguard to cross the river to protect the pontoon bridge, and then send people to reinforce it to allow the army to pass.
"What do you rely on? Didn't you also learn your ideas from the divine world?"
“But I designed the drawings of the prefabricated parts!”
In terms of materials engineering, Aldai is really her specialty.
Seeing that they were still bickering, Viola had no choice but to interrupt: "Okay, we have crossed the river now. Our next goal is to capture the Watcher's Fortress. Wendy, you stay behind to command and dispatch, and the others are following me. Participate in the siege together.”
After capturing the Watcher's Fortress, the open city is already in sight. And not only must it be captured, but it must be captured quickly to prevent the Subia Demon Kingdom's army from counterattacking.
As for how to quickly capture the fortress, plans have already been made.
To sum it up, it can be summed up in nine words.
Any fighter will win with the right combination and the most surprising.
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Unable to stop the Avarus Demon Kingdom from crossing the river, the Subia Demon Kingdom army had no choice but to retreat and defend.
But to be honest, from generals to soldiers, no one has much confidence.
There are still two days before the agreed reinforcements arrive, so it is basically impossible to expect the reinforcements to arrive.
It stands to reason that although Viola's army is almost five times as large as the defenders of Watcher's Fortress, they have fortifications to rely on.
As the saying goes, if you are ten, you will surround it, if you are five, you will attack it, if if you double it, you will divide it.
The defenders can resist an enemy force several times their own with far fewer troops, especially now that there are no high-performance artillery. Facing the enchanted city wall, no matter how many troops there are, they will be blinded.
Previously, 120,000 people from the Subia Demon Kingdom attacked the Qihang City with only 30,000 defenders. The successive capture of the first two city walls was enough to show how powerful the Kingdom Tigers were in commanding. However, facing the strongest and last wall, The city wall is still difficult to maintain the offensive.
It is really not difficult for six thousand people to resist twenty-five thousand people against the city wall, especially if they only need to resist for two days.
But again, what matters in wars these days is morale.
The army of the Subia Demon Kingdom had little morale to speak of. Especially when they saw dense torches appearing outside the city, and the light of illuminating arrows making the enemy armor emerge in the darkness, it seemed to arouse many people's ptsd. The general knew this very well, but he had no choice but to die.
——Woo!
The horn of attack sounded, just as the wind and snow stopped at this time, the soldiers guarding the city could clearly see the connected torches advancing towards them in a neat square formation. Even if they stood on the city wall more than ten meters high, they still had no sight. No sense of security.
The Lookout Fortress is built on the mountain and has two gates. The Avarus Demon King's army only moved towards the main entrance of the Watcher's Fortress and did not seem to intend to encircle it.
The enemy must be surrounded.
As the saying goes, trapped animals still fight, let alone humans.
You cannot push the enemy to death, otherwise they will die on both sides, and they are likely to fight back desperately before dying, causing greater casualties to themselves.
When leaving a way out, the enemy is likely to flee through the way out as soon as they see that they are no match, losing their determination to fight to the death, thereby reducing the casualties of our soldiers.
Viola's purpose was not to kill the enemy, but to capture the Watcher's Fortress, so she deliberately left a way out.
Of course, the generals who defended the city were well aware that this was also a kind of psychological warfare. The already low morale of the Subia Demon Kingdom army would not defend the fortress desperately when there was a way to escape.
This is a naked conspiracy, putting everything on the table, but you still have to walk in.
Everything was not good for the defenders, and the generals knew it, but they could do nothing but fulfill their duties as soldiers.
He drew his saber and shouted loudly:
"Archers, prepare!"
The Avarus Demon King's army was getting closer and closer, and a rain of arrows like locusts shot over them.
For a moment, my ears were filled with a tinkling sound, like the sound of raindrops falling on the roof.
The vanguard must be heavy armor and shield soldiers. The first wave of arrow rain is not very lethal, but it is also like a fuse, and the siege is about to start.
The archers drew their second arrows one after another, preparing for the next wave of arrows to kill the main force following the shield soldiers.
But at this moment, a terrifying roar came from the sky. No matter who it was, their heart felt like it skipped a beat when they heard the sound.
"Dragon! A dragon is coming down from the sky!"
Someone shouted loudly from the wall, but it was too late to warn.
The white dragon passed through the low clouds. Its graceful figure like a white swan brought the coldness of death. It swooped down and breathed a dragon's breath at the soldiers on the city wall who were drawing their bows.
The white dragon's breath was extremely cold. Many soldiers remained in panic and turned around to flee, but were frozen into ice sculptures and stayed in place. Ordinary arrows were not even a tickle for the dragon. Before the ballista on the city wall could change direction, Bailong immediately flapped his wings and climbed up at a large angle, disappearing into the low clouds in the blink of an eye.
Before the missile age, there was a very practical tactical theory in air combat, which was to use high potential energy to convert into kinetic energy to launch an attack, and then convert the kinetic energy into potential energy to climb after the attack.
This is the so-called energy war.
To put it bluntly, it is a cycle of repeating the dive attack, climbing, and then dive attack again.
Not only can it be used on fighter jets, but it can also be used on dive bombers, and this attack and bombing accuracy is higher. Many Japanese aircraft carriers were sent to the bottom of the sea by America in this way.
However, the role of the white dragon is actually closer to that of a Stuka bomber. It is not easy for a white dragon to wipe out the defenders of an entire fortress, but its terrifying roar every time it dives brings intense psychological terror.
For a time, many of the defenders on the city wall raised their heads to alert the sky. At this time, a hail of arrows rose into the sky from the Avarus Demon Kingdom army.
They are already close at hand.
(End of chapter)